User talk:Magioladitis

Checkwiki

Hi! When you're back from wikibreak, could you re-scan Latvian Wikipedia? At least, for ID 3 and 34. Thanks! --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 16:53, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Edgars2007 In theory, there should be two dumps (scans) a month. However, WMF have been playing with the dumps the past several months and they have have been spotty at best. We've been lucky to get one dump very late. Latvian dump completed two days ago, but hasn't been transferred to WMF Labs yet. Bgwhite (talk) 18:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: OK, understood. But then at least scanning for ID 3 would be nice, even with September scan. We just updated list of templates, so it would be nice to see, what are the real results. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 08:32, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Edgars2007 I've manually started up Checkwiki's October lvwiki dump processing. They are still having problems with dump files. Bgwhite (talk) 00:04, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Bgwhite! --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:33, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome back

Hi Magio. I am happy to see you come back. I missed you in the past two weeks. Just wanted to say hi. Best wishes. --Meno25 (talk) 16:48, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

News mention

Hi, you were mentioned, along with the rest of the Top 10 Wikipedians by edit count, in this news piece: http://priceonomics.com/the-most-prolific-editor-on-wikipedia/. Thanks, ––Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:29, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Rubbish computer Wow! Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:45, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Spiti Horse

Hi! Could you kindly tell me exactly what you did with this edit, as I'm not managing to see any difference in the diff. I ask because I doubt whether an edit that makes no perceptible difference is worth making at all. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:21, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers true. I did minor edits in all horses articles mainly to fix the code in the infobox. So, it was in my list. This page had no problems. Super minor edit. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:33, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, that might have been a good idea (you could have posted at the WikiProject to check), but you haven't done it: the infobox is {{Infobox horse breed}}, but at Curly Horse you've left it at {{ Infobox horse; I'm sure it doesn't matter much. Could I ask you, though, to weigh carefully the potential annoyance of a trivial edit against its value to the project? I have about three hundred such on my watchlist this morning, and I'm … well, not thrilled. Since I'm here, could I also ask you to take care not to edit articles that are blanked for copyright reasons (the copyviocore template specifically asks editors not to do so). I do understand, of course, that you are using a tool and these things should really be taken up with whoever made or manages that tool. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:58, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers the last is easy. In fact, AWB, in bot mode, skips pages that tagged as copyvio. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:26, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 18 October

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that some edits performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. They are as follows:

• On the Cebuano Wikipedia page, your edit caused a URL error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)
• On the Kishore Bhatt page, your edit caused a URL error (help). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check these pages and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Horse articles

Hi, I've noticed that you've been editing a lot of the horse articles, but I can't see any difference. What are you doing with them? (Did they have typos or something?) I'm not bothered (it'd be stupid if I was) but I'm just curious as to what they need improvement on. I've been trying to make them as good as possible, but if I've done something wrong just let me know and I'll fix it so you won't have to fool with it. Thanks. White Arabian mare (Neigh) 16:14, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

White Arabian mare I only did some minor cleanup to the infoboxes to remove an extra existing-unnecessary pipe symbol. Only that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I always try to spell-check manually, but it's easy to hit the same key twice by accident. Thanks! White Arabian mare (Neigh) 18:30, 19 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare

Talkback

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Invisible characters

Yobot has been removing invisible characters from Ottoman Turkish alphabet, e.g., this edit. The invisible character is the Unicode Left-to-Right mark, which controls whether X Y (where X and Y are Arabic characters) is rendered in Arabic order (Y X) or Latin order (X Y). Am I supposed to use ‎ instead? That makes the page code very messy. --Macrakis (talk) 18:28, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

@Meno25: to help with that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:03, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Macrakis The problem with the invisible characters is, well, they are invisible. Very easy to delete among other things. For words, I use the appropriate {{lang}} template. Where LtR meets RtL, the {{Lrm}} type templates come in handy. For questions, I ask Meno25. The advantage with the template is that people notice they are there and there is a doc page for help. Bgwhite (talk) 21:08, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

"Clarification needed" template

Hi Magioladitis. I saw Yobot changed my {what?} to {clarify}. Have the {what?}, {who?} etc templates been deprecated? I often see pages about things that are "old but still in use" (some of the deletion templates, for example), which is confusing. Where can I find a list of the templates in use to request clarity/ more information? Thanks, regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 13:24, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Farshid Delshad's bio

Hi, I just wanted to check with you about one of the edits that I made. I was added some info about a known researcher and it keeps sending message that needs more info. all I added has source and besides that, his name is mentioned in different wiki pages and different categories. could you tell me what's the reason thanks